Poo Bear Quotes

If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. By the time the '70s arrived, I was well aware of the cyclical nature of the game. Pop music is a creature of the moment; it thrives on the mood of its time. Either you hook into that or you're not going to be part of it.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Everything goes in cycles in the music industry.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

By the time one song gains popularity, another one is introduced.

Music has changed, but there will always be a demand for amazing music.

You get x amount of years at the top… boybands are like buses - there's always another one coming along.

Music industry is like fashion. Things keep coming, things keep going, trends keep changing.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.